Pain around pacemaker site

A little over 2 months ago, I had a pacemaker inserted. I have bad pain at the insertion site.
This pain is at the top of the incision. I cannot have any clothing touch this or it hurts. At night, when I roll onto my back afyer being on either side, the shooting pain wakes me up.
Is it possible that this incision is accidentally attached to a nerve?
Before this surgery. I was a very active 63 year old. Exercising daily.
Any advice would be helpful. My doctor said this is healing but this much pain (constantly) cannot be normal.

I am just over two months from having my pacemaker put in. I woke up one night with a burning sensation by my incision area plus a horrible feeling of my skin feeling tight. My doctor said my incision was still warm and swollen so continued my restrictions. My burning sensation is getting worse, literally wakes me up at night. Can’t get comfortable to fall asleep and to put on a bra, FORGET IT. My doctor thinks it is going to take me longer to heal due to my fibromyalgia. Anyone else have any recommendations, I literally think about the pain and bringing all day! I go see my cardiologist next week.

Kanaaz, I do apologize that I have waited so long to respond to your kind inquiry about my pm pain. Progress is slow, isn't it? An x-ray shows that I have AC joint arthritis. I have waited 3 weeks tomorrow to hear from a dr who is going to give me some kind of nerve ending tests. Next week I see an orthopedic dr The pain hasn't bothered me recently although I could hardly sit in church about 2 weeks ago because of it. It is definitely related to activity although the pain seems to be directly over my pacemaker site. I just can't figure and why did the pain start at the exact same time I received my pacemaker?

Thank you again for asking. It takes time and I'm going to guess that most of us are short on patience. Oops! I sure am.

A little over 2 months ago, I had a pacemaker inserted. I have bad pain at the insertion site.
This pain is at the top of the incision. I cannot have any clothing touch this or it hurts. At night, when I roll onto my back afyer being on either side, the shooting pain wakes me up.
Is it possible that this incision is accidentally attached to a nerve?
Before this surgery. I was a very active 63 year old. Exercising daily.
Any advice would be helpful. My doctor said this is healing but this much pain (constantly) cannot be normal.

I am just over two months from having my pacemaker put in. I woke up one night with a burning sensation by my incision area plus a horrible feeling of my skin feeling tight. My doctor said my incision was still warm and swollen so continued my restrictions. My burning sensation is getting worse, literally wakes me up at night. Can’t get comfortable to fall asleep and to put on a bra, FORGET IT. My doctor thinks it is going to take me longer to heal due to my fibromyalgia. Anyone else have any recommendations, I literally think about the pain and bringing all day! I go see my cardiologist next week.

New to site. My name is Jimmy, 62
Had PM surgery May 30. 10 weeks yesterday. followed all instructions no lifting , golf swimming for six weeks plus. slowly started to get back to activities. played a few rounds ( maybe 3 rounds) of golf, exercise on bike, hit some balls at range, all with no issues. Felt good. Just this week when I lie down I have that burning pinching pain around site towards shoulder. when I stretch I feel the pain. now I am back to being gingerly about my movements. my question is; Is this what I have to look forward to? Did your situation get better after mare time? Doctor said after 6 weeks I would be able to do whatever I did before. I called the doctor and got the nurse. She said it is most likely muscular related, also said if there was a problem the monitor would have picked it up.

Jimmy:

While 6-8 weeks after you can do "whatever you did before" you need to be careful when lifting the arms above the shoulder and the force used as that irritates the site and slows the healing.
I suspect the rounds of golf and the balls at the range might have been a bit too much too soon.

I'm not a golfer but I regularly train with weights. I waited 8 weeks or so and then began with fairly gentle whole body work without weights. Then I started slowly. My progress has been steady and I generally do "whatever I did before." I actually feel better and stronger and more confident than before. I occasionally get a bit of discomfort.

When I first started to recover I was discouraged because my pacemaker was put in Sept. 2022 at age 75. I thought my age and the procedure and time 'off' would prevent me from ever doing any meaningful (to me) lifting. Not so. I don't remember the exact progress timeline but by the end of year 1 I was happy with my progress. We (trainer and I) did a test of my 3 favourite lifts for my 77th birthday in June and I got a "high five" from everyone.

I worried and had anxiety a lot in the first months after the implant. I used the Metronic site (www.medtronic.ca/patientresources) and toll free line a few times. And this Mayo Forum.
Long story short: I am not a doctor nor a technician but I suspect the nurse is correct, muscles are unhappy. And yes, it does get better...much better. If not, keep calling the doctor or technician for advice.

Long story

I am 12 months out. I would continue to stretch and the discomfort should go away with time. I am very active as a 78 year old lifting and doing pushups every day. I did add a pad over the car shoulder strap. At my 12 months out appt, I described an unpleasant sensation when touching and/or rubbing over the PM, my EP changed the conductivity pattern and that went away.